My appearance on Dave Scheider's e-cosmoetica

Host Dan Schneider invited me on his online program this weekend to discuss modern confusion about race and gender. Excuse the weak connection; I was at the cottage, on rural "internet". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IU9kBhbD4A

Family and Gender, Podcast, Politics, Social policy, United StatesJohn RobsonSeptember 29, 2015

Do the Canadian thing and give so-cons a break

In June the CBC asked me for a radio commentary based on a National Post column I’d written on the thoughtless way social conservatives are abused in Canadian public debate. You can listen to it here.

Media, Podcast, Politics, Social policyJohn RobsonJuly 14, 2015

Postmodern identity puzzles

In my latest National Post column I ask why a person can change their gender but not their race.

Abortion, Columns, Family and Gender, National Post, Social policyJohn RobsonJune 22, 2015

Let's get this over with

In my latest National Post column I argue for trying the best imaginable government welfare system, the Negative Income Tax, in order to learn the bitter lesson that government welfare doesn't fail when money doesn't reach the intended beneficiaries but when it does reach them.

Budget, Columns, Economics, Family and Gender, Government, National Post, Social policyJohn RobsonJune 15, 2015

Another helping of nonsense

In my latest National Post column, I tell the government waiter I didn't order this patronizing rubbish.

Arts & culture, Columns, Economics, Education, Environment, Family and Gender, Government, Health care, History, National Post, Science & Technology, Social policyJohn RobsonJune 1, 2015

Solving the human equation - not!

My latest National Post column criticizes the obsession with solving mankind's problems, in this case poverty, with advanced mathematics, as though humans were things not people.

Columns, Economics, Family and Gender, Government, National Post, Science & Technology, Social policy, United StatesJohn RobsonMay 11, 2015